Yes, the green flame is caused by burning copper from depleting fuel in the regenerative cooling circuit and going oxygen-rich (closer to stoichiometric temperature) in the main combustion chamber.
Slight underperformance of engines on this flight is the reason. The booster is meant to land with tiny residuals, so the solution is to improve engine performance and performance consistency (underway with Raptor V3.2), as well as adjust flight software to do MECO1 about one second earlier to ensure enough propellant for boostback and landing (tiny change).
These early ships and boosters are already outdated by improved designs in production or on the test stand, so this booster loss does not change our timeline to reach high volume, fully reusable Starship flights.
@stevenmarkryan Yes. Per the exact words in the clip, the bet is lost if a Cybercab is delivered to a customer for $30k or less before 2027. The scenario matches those conditions.
Hello guys, tonight I watched a 50 minute podcast with Albert Castellana from GenLayer on The Future of Crypto Compliance, and one minute in it is still stuck in my head. Code is free now, execution is becoming free, so what still has value? According to Albert, it’s judgment. AI already decides what we see on Twitter, whether we get hired, whether we get a loan or insurance, and right now we’re just trusting a few big AI labs with that power
Main points:
- His previous project lost access to around $150M after keys were lost, and the courts turned out to be too slow and expensive
- GenLayer is building a small digital court onchain for decisions that aren’t just yes or no
- Five random validators, each with its own AI model, vote on the outcome
- Disagree? Appeal, and the validator set doubles each time, up to 1,500
- The first decision takes minutes and costs around 50 cents
- It doesn’t replace real courts, it handles small disputes nobody would take to court anyway